Who here gets an annual physical exam?

[Pop_Rivit]

Originally Posted By: kb01
it's often better to not get a physical or do anything that might document a health problem, since it will just turn into a pre-existing condition if there's a lapse in coverage.


Yes, because you wouldn't want to catch a health problem early when it's easily corrected or controlled. Much better to wait until it becomes a serious, expensive and possibly debilitating problem.

 

[kb01]

Originally Posted By: Pop_Rivit

Yes, because you wouldn't want to catch a health problem early when it's easily corrected or controlled. Much better to wait until it becomes a serious, expensive and possibly debilitating problem.


I wasn't saying it's an easy choice but a pre-existing condition is essentially a scarlet letter. What good does a diagnosis do if your employer dumps the health plan or you are laid off and can't afford COBRA?

Might as well keep your mouth shut and wait until insurance is renewed or you get a new job.

 

[SteveSRT8]

My wife is a health care pro, so it's mandatory around here or she may withold her favors!

 

[Loobed]

I go, but I don't know why. They don't do anything or listen to what I have to say. They also don't write anything down.

 

[kasedian]

 

[xBa380]

I have been getting a yearly physical all my life... The past three years I have been getting 2x per year, one with my doctor and one at work at their medical center.

 

[SEMI_287]

Originally Posted By: Astro14
I keep up an FAA class I medical, which requires one every six months...

Blood work and EKG included...


Ditto...

Plus I have a Class A CDL so every two years for that.

 

[opus1]

Originally Posted By: kb01
Originally Posted By: Pop_Rivit

Yes, because you wouldn't want to catch a health problem early when it's easily corrected or controlled. Much better to wait until it becomes a serious, expensive and possibly debilitating problem.


I wasn't saying it's an easy choice but a pre-existing condition is essentially a scarlet letter. What good does a diagnosis do if your employer dumps the health plan or you are laid off and can't afford COBRA?

Might as well keep your mouth shut and wait until insurance is renewed or you get a new job.
Having been on the receiving end of the situation, I can understand. Long story short, I had a pre-existing and minor condition which was controlled but made me untouchable once I ran out COBRA and I wound up in the "high-risk" pool -- translation, horrible coverage at triple the price of my COBRA.

 

[sittingduck57]

I get a diabetic maint. phys every three months. I pretty much play the game but I thought they were being anal. I just got out of the hospital after having a heart attack Tuesday morning.

 

[tig1]

My health care the last two years has been with the VA. They give me a physical every 6 months with blood work and urine test.

 

[oilboy123]

I'll be 50 this year. I had a physical 2 years ago. What fun............I need to get it done again.

 

[andyd]

Now I get a blood test every 90 days and a physical yrly. Before I was hospitalized for 4 days in 08 for pneumonia. I had loads of insurance, but hadn't seen a doctor in 10 yrs. I got Marina's doctor to be my PCP. I blew off her request for a follow up exam. In 09, I was feeling crummy from summer allergies, I didnt want to get pneunonia again, so this time I had an exam. I showed the NP my inverted nipple and the mass behind it. It was breast cancer, just starting to spread out. Had it been caught a year earlier, it would have been a lot less trouble. So I recommend another indignity to suffer after 50. Get the doc to check out your upper chest. One in every 200 breast cancer victims is a man. Because man 's focus is far from his own chest, it often get missed until it is advanced. It was only a series of coincidences that lead to my just in the nick of time diagnosis. As you age, I'm 60, health becomes a delaying action. Ask yourself, do you want to die miserable with pain or would you rather let modern medicine prolong your quality of life a bit longer ?

 

[oilboy123]

Wow I did not even know that men got breast cancer.
Originally Posted By: andyd
Now I get a blood test every 90 days and a physical yrly. Before I was hospitalized for 4 days in 08 for pneumonia. I had loads of insurance, but hadn't seen a doctor in 10 yrs. I got Marina's doctor to be my PCP. I blew off her request for a follow up exam. In 09, I was feeling crummy from summer allergies, I didnt want to get pneunonia again, so this time I had an exam. I showed the NP my inverted nipple and the mass behind it. It was breast cancer, just starting to spread out. Had it been caught a year earlier, it would have been a lot less trouble. So I recommend another indignity to suffer after 50. Get the doc to check out your upper chest. One in every 200 breast cancer victims is a man. Because man 's focus is far from his own chest, it often get missed until it is advanced. It was only a series of coincidences that lead to my just in the nick of time diagnosis. As you age, I'm 60, health becomes a delaying action. Ask yourself, do you want to die miserable with pain or would you rather let modern medicine prolong your quality of life a bit longer ?

 

[andyd]

Yah, neither did I. Turns out males are born with breasts. Puberty doesnt turn them on as it does with females.